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Sxip News RSSArchives 2006 - Quarter 3
BC Government Citizen Centric Identity 2.0 Initiative Popular at DIDW
25 September, 2006 - 3:16am
Kudos to the BC government for their presentation on the BCeID initiative at the Digital ID World conference. A great deal of interest was expressed in their Identity 2.0 citizen-centric efforts by others in the identity community.
On-Demand Identity Management to Salesforce Now Available for SMBs
22 September, 2006 - 1:48am
Sxip Access Workgroup Edition makes Salesforce simple and safe to deploy. Simply plug Sxip Access Workgroup Edition into your network and turn it on. A secure channel is automatically established with Sxip's data center, with Sxip undertaking any configuration, maintenance and updating. Sxip instantly and securely directs all the authentication requests to Salesforce on your behalf. The convenient Identity Gateway form-factor of the Workgroup Edition delivers affordable authentication to Salesforce on a per user, subscription based pricing model, bringing all the power of an enterprise-scale solution without the associated IT overhead and costs. Find out more in our talk "Managing Identities in an Outsourced World" at the Software-as-a-Service Conference next week or contact us for a free trial!
How Software-as-a-Service Makes Identity Management a Challenge
19 September, 2006 - 3:54pm
Computerworld's Paul Gillin recently interviewed Sxip's CEO Dick Hardt for a frank 15 minute podcast on the importance of identity and access management in an outsourced world. They also dicussed trends in the digital identity space and compared the user-centric model of Identity 2.0 technologies like Microsoft InfoCard and why they will be successful versus former attempts at web single sign-on and digital identity such as Microsoft Passport failed.
Who What? Whobar previewed at DIDW
11 September, 2006 - 1:52pm
Sxip is demoing a preview of Whobar, new Identity 2.0 technology at Digital ID World and the Future of Web Apps this week.
Vancouver Again Voted Best City in Canada
29 August, 2006 - 11:27am
Travel and Leisure, the world's leading travel magazine, recently announced that Vancouver was voted best city in Canada for the second year in a row. Winners of the Annual World's Best Awards are selected by the magazine's readers. Cities were rated on the following criteria: sights, culture/arts, restaurants/food, people, shopping, and value. We wholeheartedly agree and are looking for others to join our team here! Check out our careers page for positions currently open.
Doppelgangers & ID Theft -- Why We Need Identity 2.0
22 August, 2006 - 10:10am
I recently came across a disturbing post about a professor who was the unfortunate victim of online identity theft with an unusual twist -- not for the intention of financial gain -- but rather to discredit him. Regardless if you agree with Dr. Myers' personal beliefs, activities by imposters like this are wrong and could be prevented with Identity 2.0.
Who are you? I really want to know (and can now easily find out)
14 August, 2006 - 4:20pm
Is your digital identity your personal intellectual property? Is your Google identity yours or someone elses? Mary Hodder posits these important questions in her Napsterization blog in response to the recent release by AOL of 19 million internet search queries by more than 600,000 of its members. This "Data Valdez" incident as coined by Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the New York Times, brings to light the broader issues surrounding online identity aggregation, privacy, and anonymity.
Identity and Identification in a Networked World
14 August, 2006 - 5:20am
Increasingly, who we are is represented by key bits of information scattered throughout the data-intensive, networked world. Online and off, these core identifiers mediate our sense of self, social interactions, movements through space, and access to goods and services. There is much at stake in designing systems of identification and identity management, deciding who or what will be in control of them, and building in adequate protection for our bits of identity permeating the network. Join us at the NYU School of Law's symposium next month, where Sxip's founder and CEO, will be giving the opening keynote on Day 2 on the "Emerging Age of Who".
My Federation? On user-centrism, federation & identity
13 August, 2006 - 9:43am
For the past few months there's been a heated dialogue amongst members of the ID Gang about the definitions of user-centrism and federation. The conversation started in earnest at the Burton Group Catalyst conference, continued at the Identity Open Space meeting, and many have weighed in on the issue since then. Why is a seemingly mundane discussion of semantics important? Issues of the user's role in identity exchanges, trust, freedom, and choice have significant implications for how the emerging identity architectures such as OpenID and InfoCard are designed. And correspondingly affects matters of privacy, liability, and scalability on the Web. The following is a brief overview of some of the key points:
Gartner Finds Identity 2.0 Not Ready for Mainstream Until 2008: We disagree
10 August, 2006 - 2:54am
Gartner Research's new report "Identity 2.0 is Too Ill-Defined for Imminent Deployment" is correct in stating that the different technical approaches will hinder adoption until standards are adopted. However, we believe there are a number of recent factors leading to widespread usage soon, including: current activity underway in the identity community for interoperability between protocols (including discussions with the Liberty Alliance); Sxip's involvement with OpenID along with a host of other companies; the OpenID bounty program; Wikipedia's intention of adopting OpenID; and the efforts being made by us and others over the past year for a user-centric standard; all of which are indicators to the start of an Identity 2.0 tipping point.
Choice of Identity 2.0 login options to sxore: SSO with InfoCard, OpenID or i-names
9 August, 2006 - 5:56am
Authentication is now even easier on sxore, Sxip's free identity and reputation solution for blogs, that is also proving to be a great Identity 2.0 R&D sandbox. You can now login to sxore with your InfoCard, OpenID, or i-name.
Identity 2.0 & the future of cyberspace on the Global Geek Podcast Network
7 August, 2006 - 5:11pm
The Global Geek Podcast has just posted their 30 minute interview with Sxip's founder & CEO Dick Hardt. The Q&A session covers a range of issues concerning Identity 2.0 such as: the importance of open standards, open source and open data; enabling the creation of an "online concierge"; the beginning of a tipping point with OpenID and InfoCard, which will mean massive changes for identity on the Web within the year; how there are parallels with William Gibson's and Neal Stephenson's visions of a future cyberspace that is a real virtual world; and much more... Of note, the interview segment starts 21 minutes after the beginning of the show.
OpenID Evening for Developers
3 August, 2006 - 3:34am
Interested in learning more about OpenID 2.0? Find out how it works and how you can install it on your site at Berkeley next week. Join David Recordon of VeriSign, Sxip's CEO Dick Hardt, Andy Dale from ooTao, Scott Keveton from JanRain, along with many others to discuss how OpenID 2.0 can help web developers with applications that require user login. It's on August 10th from 6-9 pm in Berkeley at 2029 University, Upstairs. For more details and to RSVP please see Kaliya's Identity Woman blog.
The Emerging Age of Who
1 August, 2006 - 9:57am
Sxip's founder and CEO, Dick Hardt is giving the opening keynote on "The Emerging Age of Who" at this fall's Future of Web Apps Summit in San Francisco. Gain insight into the dev technology behind successful sites and network with Dick and other Web 2.0 luminaries such as Michael Arrington, Kevin Rose, Evan Williams, and Tantek Celik, to name a few. Hope to see you there!
Identity 2.0 at the Hague
31 July, 2006 - 10:34am
Sxip's founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, will give his Identity 2.0 keynote this fall at the Dutch government's 5th annual GOVCERT Information Security Symposium in The Hague, the Netherlands. This year's theme, "Exchanging Knowledge is the Answer", suggests that external threats encompass more than the mere breakdown of ICT systems, but rather also entails the failure of business and social processes.
Identity 2.0 at BarCamp Vancouver
28 July, 2006 - 7:17am
The cool people at Bryght are hosting a BarCamp at their offices in our lovely hometown of Vancouver. BarCamp is a 24-hour, ad-hoc, unconference, where everyone who attends participates by presenting or helping out. Sxip developer Weston Triemstra is speaking on how to implement Identity 2.0 on your site. Besides identity, a diverse range of topics will be covered on: mash ups, open source, podcasting, blogging, vlogging, social software, online communities, and how tech activists can change the world. WOW! See you there...
Securing Web Identities
27 July, 2006 - 3:27am
As commercial and social interactions continue to migrate to the web, establishing "who" we are is essential, and current identity management technologies are failing to operate at internet scale. Join us next week at the USENIX Security Symposium's Securing Web Identities BoF, where we'll discuss emerging IdM solutions and user-centric protocols such as CardSpace, OpenID and SXIP that provide for identity data exchange, protect user privacy, and offer a functional gradient of security levels.
Sxip joins consortium funding OpenID development
26 July, 2006 - 2:38am
Sxip has joined an alliance of IT companies that will be providing bounties of $5000 to encourage the integration of OpenID into leading open source projects. In addition to Sxip, the consortium includes claimID, Cordance, Four Kitchen Studios, International Webmaster Association, JanRain, NetMesh, ooTao, Opinity, VeriSign, ZoomR, and ZP3. We hope the Bounty Program will accelerate adoption of the user-centric, Identity 2.0, approach to digital identity on the web.
SXIP Protocol Renaming?
19 July, 2006 - 8:05am
Since our first release of the SXIP protocol in September 2004, we've received a ton of feedback on a number of issues, one of which we've yet to address -- that of the name itself. We've found there's been some confusion of SXIP with our company, Sxip Identity, and concerns over whether there was a clear seperation between the protocol and the company. Although we've tried to address this with open source licensing, we believe that with the Identity Open Space meeting tomorrow and Friday here in Vancouver, that now is an appropriate time to revisit the protocol name and would appreciate community involvement in the process. Accordingly, we'd like to receive input from the IOS attendees and others in the identity space. Looking forward to a great two days of discussions! If you can't attend, please feel free to give us your comments below...
What Do the Internet's Largest Sites Think About Identity?
17 July, 2006 - 7:16pm
Sxip's founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, will be kicking off this fall's Digital ID World Keynote on What Do the Internet's Largest Sites Think About Identity? with a fast-paced presentation regarding questions on identity ownership, silos of data, privacy and security. This will be followed by a panel of executives from some of the internet’s largest sites. The panelists include Michael Barrett, the CISO from PayPal, and others are TBD. Stay tuned for what will undoubtedly be a thought-provoking and lively discussion. Also of note that day, another Identity and Open Space meeting has recently been announced. More details are on Phil Windley's site.
Upcoming User-Centric Identity Forums - IIW & Identity Open Space
10 July, 2006 - 1:52pm
The next Internet Identity Workshop has just been scheduled later this year, for December 4-5 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Closer to the present, the Identity Open Space "unconference" is being held July 20-21 in our hometown, Vancouver, Canada. Topics that will likely be covered next week include: protocol convergence, the new Identity Commons organization and what exactly is user-centric identity.
Identity 2.0 & Google, Not!
6 July, 2006 - 11:16am
Google has been under the identity gun ever since they announced an Account Authentication system that looks an awful lot like Passport, whereby instead of Microsoft, all your identity info in effect belongs to Google. Sxip's founder and CEO, Dick Hardt was the first to note the problems with this approach on his Identity 2.0 blog, and since then CNN, the Guardian, ZDNet, Microsoft's Identity guru Kim Cameron, and others have commented how problematic this approach to digital identity is.